Spinal tophaceous gout mimicking a spinal tumor

Journal of Rheumatology

Volumn 31, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 1459-1460

  Nakajima, Ayako ^a,c   Kato, Yoshiharu ^b   Yamanaka, Hisashi ^a   Ito, Tatsuo ^b   Kamatani, Naoyuki ^c  

^a Tokyo Women's Medical University   (Japan)

^b Department of Orthopedic Surgery ^*

^c TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLOPURINOL; BENZBROMARONE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACKACHE; BONE BIOPSY; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC ARTHRITIS; GOUT; HUMAN; INTERPHALANGEAL JOINT; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; SPINAL TOPHACEOUS GOUT; SPINE DISEASE; SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; SPINE TUMOR;

ADULT; ALLOPURINOL; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS, NON-STEROIDAL; ARTHRITIS, GOUTY; BENZBROMARONE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; GOUT SUPPRESSANTS; HUMANS; HYPERURICEMIA; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; SPINAL NEOPLASMS; SPONDYLITIS;

EID: 3042770612     PISSN: 0315162X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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